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Select CV area:Professional Awards
2001: Concert Artist Guild Competition, finalist and
prizewinner
NY, NY
1999: International Society of Bassists Solo Competition,
co-first prize winner
Iowa City, IA
1994: American String Teachers Association Solo Competition,
Grand Prize winner overall, first prize for double bass (1st double bassist
in competition history to win Grand Prize)
Cincinnati, OH
1992: Paranov Concerto Competition, winner
West Hartford, CT
1991: Emerson String Quartet Chamber Music Competition,
winner
West Hartford, CT
Grants and Fellowships
Internal
2004 nTITLE grant intensive training for integrating new instructional and delivery technologies in teaching. (c. $1707)
2004: Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa; for recording project for the summer of 2004, Cesar Franck’s Sonata for String Bass and Piano Sonata in A Major. (c. $6,000)
2003: UI Arts and Humanities Initiative, administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research Grant, University of Iowa; to record a CD of transcriptions of sonatas for violin/piano and cello piano. (c.$3,000)
2003: The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ Instructional Technology Grant, University of Iowa; for purchase of computer-attached portable recording equipment for use by the Double Bass studio. (c. $2,200)
2002-2003: Old Gold Summer Fellowship, University of Iowa; for professional development activities during the summer of 2003, including the editing of G.F. Handel’s Sonata for two cellos and Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 “Aria,” and researching opportunities to publish the music for double bass ensembles. (c. $6,000)
